Perpetua’s Passions: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis. Edited by Jan N. Bremmer and Marco Formisano
A young Roman woman around 203 ce in North Africa writes about herself, a nursing mother, as she awaits trial for professing Christianity, rebuffs her despairing father, and accepts condemnation to face wild beasts in the arena, encouraged by companions and especially by dreams vividly narrated, lea...
| Published in: | The journal of theological studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 252-255 |
| Review of: | Perpetua's passions (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2012) (Downing, Francis Gerald)
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| Summary: | A young Roman woman around 203 ce in North Africa writes about herself, a nursing mother, as she awaits trial for professing Christianity, rebuffs her despairing father, and accepts condemnation to face wild beasts in the arena, encouraged by companions and especially by dreams vividly narrated, leaving her brief memoir for another to add an account of her eagerly awaited death. Such writing, with a further, editorial, voice, is unprecedented, and without successor. The narrative holds most readers, although widely ignored by classicists (even those alert to still later Augustine). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls156 |